Good to be back home!

We got back home last Tuesday night thanks to Donna and Grant picking us up at the airport. It was the flight from hell, but you will hear about that in a separate blog. We get in the rig and Doug discovered that we accidentally had left the propane heater on for the last two weeks and both propane tanks were empty. It was in the mid 50's in the rig and the heat pumps just don't do a good job heating up the rig fast, since hot air rises and the heat pumps are in the ceiling. So it is 11 pm, we have been up for about 23 hours and Doug got the good idea of try using the small propane tank from the grill and hooking it up to the rig. So he took the empty big propane tanks out of their compartment while I got the small tank out from underneath the grill. We got everything hooked with only minor complications and in no time we had a nice toasty rig. Very exhausted we had no problem falling asleep and sleeping the whole night through. Our bodies did not care about the 7 hour time difference anymore.

Wednesday was a gorgeous day and I used it to take down all the outside Christmas light on the rig and the big truck and actually got three loads of laundry done. Our friends kept telling us that a cold front was coming in so I wanted to use the warmth to do some things outside. We had a nice "Happy Hour" at Linda and Larry's lot with a whole bunch of people and decided to bring the sweets we had brought from Germany and share them. They were very well received, which made me happy, since not everybody likes marzipan.

The cold came during the afternoon on Thursday and we watched the temperatures dropping in amazement. You have to understand that we are at the most southern corner of Texas, just two miles north of the Mexican border, and even though temperatures are supposed to go down into the 40's at night, they are not supposed to get below freezing. Well, yesterday's high was 40 degrees on the nose. We did get some errands run and quickly went back home. For the first time that I can remember Doug filled the white tank all the way with fresh water and by 9 pm last night he turned off the outside water since we were just above freezing. They told us in the news this morning that it got down to 27 degrees for several hours, which means the outside water lines would have frozen, if we would have left the water on. The last thing we need is water hoses and plumbing freezing up and bursting. So at this point water is being supplied via a pump from our freshwater tank until the temperatures get back above freezing. So I am using this time now to update the blog, sitting on the couch bundled up in my blanket waiting for it to get warm. Keep scrolling down, since there will be at least three more entries by the time I'm actually caught up with everything we did since the last entry.